Inside Garry’s List: Discussing California’s Future with Governor Newsom
One of the most interesting aspects of living in Silicon Valley is realizing that innovation is not only built inside startups, research labs, or venture capital firms. It is also shaped by public policy, local communities, and civic engagement. Over...
NVIDIA: The Company Powering the AI Revolution
A few years ago, most people knew NVIDIA for one thing: graphics cards. For gamers, NVIDIA represented performance, cutting-edge GPUs, and the ability to run increasingly demanding video games. The company was respected, successful, and influential within the computing industry....
Andreessen Horowitz: The Name You Hear Everywhere in Silicon Valley
Before moving to Silicon Valley, I knew Andreessen Horowitz—better known as a16z—the same way many people outside the Valley do. I knew the name. I knew it was a prestigious venture capital firm. I knew it had invested in some...
Fei-Fei Li: The Godmother of AI
When people talk about artificial intelligence today, conversations often focus on ChatGPT, AI agents, robotics, or the latest breakthroughs coming out of Silicon Valley. Yet many of these advances rest on foundations built years earlier by researchers whose names are...
Why infrastructure is becoming the most important technology sector of the AI era
For most of the last twenty years, software dominated the technology industry. The biggest success stories of the internet era were largely software companies. Search engines, social networks, mobile applications, cloud platforms and digital marketplaces transformed how people communicate, work...
We are living through the second age of engineering
For much of the twentieth century, engineers were the heroes of progress. They built bridges, power plants, railroads, aircraft, telecommunications networks and industrial systems. They electrified cities, connected continents and transformed scientific discoveries into practical tools that improved everyday life....